page_title: St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr
section_title: Churchyard
hierarchical_section_title: St Padarn's Church, Llanbadarn Fawr / Churchyard
caption_attribution_description: English: Parish church: Llanbadarn Fawr: from the northwest This church is on the site of the important "clas" of St Padarn, and for a while in the Dark Ages was the seat of a bishop. As with other clas churches, its parish was very extensive, including a large part of north Cardiganshire.
context_page_description: Saint Padarn's Church is a parish church of the Church in Wales, and the largest mediaeval church in mid-Wales.
  Founded in the early sixth century, St Padarn's Church has gone through many changes, from a Welsh monastic centre, a Benedictine priory, a clas again, a royal rectory, a church controlled by Chester's Vale Royal Abbey, and since 1538 a parish church under a vicar. It is at Llanbadarn Fawr, near Aberystwyth, in Ceredigion, Wales, United Kingdom.
context_section_description: The churchyard covers some two acres. Most of the headstones in the churchyard are modern – many of them are from the nineteenth century – but the churchyard, which is now closed to new interments, contains some old monuments. The whole churchyard and church is surrounded by what was once a typical sign of an early Celtic church; an oval formation of trees. There are also indications which suggest the remains of an early pond, probably for keeping fish for the priests and monks who once lived there. There is no visible trace of any conventual buildings (which would probably have been mostly relatively slight wooden structures, and never extensive). In the early nineteenth century Meyrick does however record the survival of what appeared to be stone monastic or church buildings.
caption: A view from the northwest, showing part of the churchyard
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